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-        id1(This is the text in the box) +        id1(Passive and obedient) --> id2(Passive useful idiot) --> id3(Active useful idiot) --> id4(Active and informed) 
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-</mermaid>+This is not to say that these individuals understand fully what they are participating in, or why, but just that they are aware **on some level** that they are pushing //something//. Of course, they may believe that there are good reasons for them to be doing so, or that [[the-end-justifies-the-means|the end justifies the means]], and so on, but the distinction being made is that 'they' are part of the mechanism which is moving the needle (so to speak) on larger population groups.  \\ \\
  
- +For example, a consultant at a think tank coming up with a clever way to sell the public on taking a monkey pox vaccine (whether the person believes in the product or not) is different to a local doctor who is taking their pharmaceutical rep at face value and receiving 50 bucks a pop for injecting their local population. The consultant may likewise be deluded into thinking they are somehow participating in a 'good thing' (and just coincidentally getting paid a lot of money to do it) but they are one step up the hierarchy and thus further along the spectrum. \\ \\
-This is not to say that these individuals understand fully what they are participating in, or why, but just that they are aware *on some level* that they are pushing //something//. Of course, they may believe that there are good reasons for them to be doing so, or that [[the-end-justifies-the-means|the end justifies the means]], and so on, but the distinction being made is that 'they' are part of the mechanism which is moving the needle (so to speak) on larger population groups.  \\ \\ +
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-For example, a consultant at a think tank coming up with a clever way to sell the public on taking a monkey pox vaccine (whether the person believes in the product or not) is different to a local doctor who is taking their pharmaceutical rep at face value and receiving 50 bucks a pop for injecting their local population. The consultant may likewise be deluded into thinking they are somehow participating in a 'good thing' (and just coincidentally getting paid a lot of money to do it) but they are one step up the hierarchy and thus +
  
 Of course, through a combination of ideology and incentives of various kids, these individuals are induced to each serve a function as a cog in the broader system which has been engineered from above to achieve certain goals, while appearing (at the surface level) to be organic in nature. \\ \\ Of course, through a combination of ideology and incentives of various kids, these individuals are induced to each serve a function as a cog in the broader system which has been engineered from above to achieve certain goals, while appearing (at the surface level) to be organic in nature. \\ \\